This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. Gathering scholars from the spatial sciences architecture, urban design, urban planning, and geographyas well as sociology, anthropology, history, and economics, the volume explores these transbordering practices of place making and community building across cultural and nation-state borders, examining different agents (individuals, ethnic and cultural groups, NGOs, government agencies) that are engaged in transnational/transborder living and city-making practices, reconceiving notions of state, identity, and citizenship and showing how subjected populations resist, adapt, or coproduce transnational/transborder projects and, in the process, help shape and are shaped as transborder subjects.
Introduction: What Do We Mean by Transbordering Latin Americas? Clara Iraz?bal Part I: Gender and Image-Making 1. On the Move: Globalizing Subcultures in Rio de Janeiros Favelas Stephan Lanz 2. Gender, Transnationalism and Empowerment in Postville, Iowa: Women with Electronic Shackles Gerardo Francisco Sandoval and Luz Hern?ndez 3. The Gang of the Barrio : Invention and Negative Trans-Nationalization of a Latin American Figure of Urbanity Yves Pedrazzini Part II: Tourism and Transnational Planning 4. Cusco: City of Memory Miriam Chion 5. Diasporic Tourism: Immigrant Politics, Consumption, and Traditions in Los Angeless Plaza Mexico Clara Iraz?bal and Macarena G?mez-Barris 6. Multicultural Participatory Planning: Normative Ideals and Pragmatic Realities ils+